With an active marketplace of over 175 million items, use the Alibris Advanced Search Page to find any item you are looking for.
Through the Advanced Search Page, you can find items by searching specific terms such as Title, Author, Subject, ISBN, etc or you can narrow your focus using our amazing set of criteria parameters.
Advanced Search Can Help Find What You Are Searching For
Use the Alibris Advanced Search Page to narrow your search criteria and find your item!
With an active marketplace of over 175 million items, use the Alibris Advanced Search Page to find any item you are looking for.
Through the Advanced Search, you can find items by searching specific terms such as Title, Artist, Song Title, Genre, etc or you can narrow your focus using our amazing set of criteria parameters.
Advanced Search Can Help Find What You Are Searching For
Use the Alibris Advanced Search Page to narrow your search criteria and find your item!
With an active marketplace of over 175 million items, use the Alibris Advanced Search Page to find any item you are looking for.
Through the Advanced Search, you can find items by searching specific terms such as Title, Director, Actor, Genre, etc or you can narrow your focus using our amazing set of criteria parameters.
Advanced Search Can Help Find What You Are Searching For
Use the Alibris Advanced Search Page to narrow your search criteria and find your item!
First published in 1934, The Postman Always Rings Twice caused a scandal with its explosive mix of violence and sex, and immediately became a bestseller. The torrid story of Frank Chambers, the amoral drifter, Cora, the sullen and brooding wife, and Nick Papadakis, the amiable but inconvenient husband, has become a classic of its kind, and established Cain as a major novelist with a spare and vital prose style and a bleak vision of America.
Read More
First published in 1934, The Postman Always Rings Twice caused a scandal with its explosive mix of violence and sex, and immediately became a bestseller. The torrid story of Frank Chambers, the amoral drifter, Cora, the sullen and brooding wife, and Nick Papadakis, the amiable but inconvenient husband, has become a classic of its kind, and established Cain as a major novelist with a spare and vital prose style and a bleak vision of America.
Read Less
Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination.
Seller's Description:
First edition. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly Signed by James M. Cain on the front free endpaper. Light wear, near fine in a near fine dust jacket with light rubbing to the crown of the spine and some light reinforcement to the front panel. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. "It is sometimes easy to trace a literary genre to its source, and James M. Cain's first novel, The Postman Always Rings Twice, is the noir novel that paved the way for all the noir fiction that followed. The famous film starring Lana Turner and John Garfield is notoriously dark, but the novel is even more full of despair and devoid of hope. It is a short book--little more than a novella--but its searing characterization and depiction of tawdry greed and lust is branded into every reader's memory" (Otto Penzler). Listed by Modern Library as one of the 100 greatest novels of the twentieth century.
Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination.
Seller's Description:
Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. First edition. Boards are slightly soiled and near fine, with a supplied proof dustwrapper which came directly from the estate of the artist Arthur Hawkins, Jr. The jacket has been folded with a crease at the spine, Knopf's small Borzoi logo has been cut away from the rear panel (possibly for another design by Hawkins), and Hawkins has written the date "1933" on the front flap, although the book wasn't released until 1934. However the jacket is exceptionally bright and otherwise fine, and about 1/4" taller than the finished version, to which we have compared it (although otherwise identical to it). The jacket was unsigned by Hawkins, unlike most of his work, but is credited to him in Heller and Chwast's seminal study of jacket design, Jackets Required--the survival of this proof in his estate seems to confirm their research. A milestone of hardboiled literature that was the basis for the classic 1946 film featuring Lana Turner and John Garfield (as well as at least three other versions). Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone. This proof jacket is likely unique.
Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination.
Seller's Description:
Second Draft Screenplay for the 1981 film. Copy belonging to actor Jim S. Cash, who played one of the Twin Oaks tavern customers, with his ownership name in holograph ink on the front wrapper. Various editorial notations throughout in holographic ink and pencil. Directed by Bob Rafelson, and based on the 1939 novel by James M. Cain, this film was one of the gems of late 1970s cinema (along with "The Verdict") that brought David Mamet to the attention of the filmmaking world, and led to his working not only as a screenwriter but an important director. Mamet's grim update of Cain's classic hard-boiled novel was somewhat panned on release, but is today held in high regard, and is considered a major influence on the genre. Red titled wrappers, title stamped in gilt on the front wrapper, with a holograph pencil notation that this copy No. 17. Title page present, with a date of December, 1979 and credits for novelist Cain and screenwriter Mamet. 133 leaves, mechanically reproduced, with blue and pink revision pages throughout, dated variously between 1/14/80 and 5/7/80. Pages about Near Fine, wrapper Very Good plus with some light rubbing to the gilt title on the front wrapper, bound with two gold brads. Silver Classic Noir. Spicer US.
Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination.
Seller's Description:
Very Good. First Edition, First Printing. Very Good, lacking dust jacket. Offsetting to end papers. First 8 page leafs have a tiny tear at the side edge. Foxing to side of page block and cloth. Sunning to spine. First edition, as stated.
Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination.
Seller's Description:
Two draft scripts for the 1981 film. One is a Second Draft script, dated December 1979, the other is an Agency script in promotional titled wrappers, undated. Directed by Bob Rafelson, and based on the 1939 novel by James M. Cain, "Postman" was one of the gems of early 1980 cinema (along with "The Verdict") and neo-noir, and brought David Mamet to the attention of the filmmaking world, leading to his working not only as a screenwriter but an important director. Mamet's grim update of Cain's classic hard-boiled novel was somewhat panned on release, but is today held in high regard, and is considered a major influence on the genre. Shot on location in Santa Barbara, California. Script one: Red titled wrappers. Title page present, dated December, 1979, noted as SECOND DRAFT, with credits for screenwriter Mamet and novelist Cain. 123 leaves, with last leaf of text numbered 121. Photographically reproduced. Pages and wrapper Near Fine, bound with two gold brads. Script two: Black titled wrappers. Title page present, undated, with credits for screenwriter Mamet and novelist Cain. 118 leaves, with last leaf of text numbered 117. Photographically reproduced. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Very Good plus, perfect bound. Silver Classic Noir. Spicer US.
Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination.
Seller's Description:
1st edition. Hardcover. Original yellow boards with black lettering in very good condition, and endpapers and pages very clean indeed. An excellent first printing of the author's famous novel. A Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone mystery novel.
Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination.
Seller's Description:
GIFT QUALITY. JACKET: TORN DJ. 5 X 7. The dj matches the original design published by Alfred A. Knopf. The dj is torn down spine, rubbed cover, lightly tanned, creased at spine. The book has light shelf wear, tanned fore edges and pages. Good binding, clean body and unmarked text. This copy was published the same year as the 1934 Knopf first edition. Our Jacket has same design as dj of the knopf first edition book. _PAB_
Edition:
first and second edition before publication
Publisher:
Alfred A. Knopf
Published:
1934
Alibris ID:
13703196459
Shipping Options:
Standard Shipping: $3.99
Trackable Expedited: $7.99
Two Day Air: $14.99
Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination.
Seller's Description:
Very Good+ Spine slightly cocked. Slight wear to extremities. Previous owner's name in inkstamp to front free endpaper; The classic novel, filmed twice. A fine example of a source of noir film; 8vo; 188 pages.
(
